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HTML Introduction to HTML and CSS (2016) Make It Beautiful With CSS Test: Styling by Element and Class

brad helman
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brad helman
Courses Plus Student 290 Points
Posted by brad helman
brad helman
Courses Plus Student 290 Points

trouble with css <p> border

i have tried this on my own several ways in html and css googled it but cant find anything on borders with examples in context

index.html 
<!doctype html>
<html>
  <head>
    <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet">
  </head>
  <body>
    <style>
      <p> {border-color: red;
        border-width: 4px; }
    </style>

    <p class= "main-pg">My amazing website</p>

  </body>
</html>
styles.css 
main-pg
.main-pg {}

3 Answers

Denis Arambasic
Denis Arambasic
3,184 Points
Denis Arambasic
Denis Arambasic
3,184 Points

There are Three ways to insert css to your web page:

  1. External style sheet (that is this line that you put in the head tags in the index.html file):

    <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet">

- than you create that style.css file and put your style there (to make a border on the p element):

    p {
        border-style: solid;
        border-color: red;
        border-width: 4px; 
    }

  1. Internal style sheet (is when you put your css into style tags in the head tag of the index.html file)

    <!doctype html>

    <html>

    <head>

    <style>

  p {
    border-style: solid;
    border-color: red;
    border-width: 4px; 
    }

</style>

    </head>

    ..

  2. Inline style (is when you put your style directly into your html tags)

    <p style="border-style: solid; border-color: red; border-width: 4px;">My amazing website</p>

if you wont to use the class "main-pg" Inside the paragraph <p class="main-pg"></p> than you can target this element in your style sheet in two ways:

p.main-pg {
    border-style: solid;
    border-color: red;
    border-width: 4px; 
}


.main-pg {
    border-style: solid;
    border-color: red;
    border-width: 4px; 
}

And if you wont to give a element a border first you must define the border-style: solid, dotted, dashed...

Daniel Irchai
Daniel Irchai
7,260 Points
Daniel Irchai
Daniel Irchai
7,260 Points

Try removing the < and > symbols from the p selector inside the <style> tags. In CSS, the < and > symbols are not put around selectors.

Ella Ruokokoski
Ella Ruokokoski
20,881 Points
Ella Ruokokoski
Ella Ruokokoski
20,881 Points

I think the styles are supposed to be in the styles.css. And you are supposed to use the class of the p element when writing the styles